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Too much water: Gold fever, climate change submerge Bolivian village / 372R4GY
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Navigating a makeshift raft between drifting furniture and submerged cars, Rafael Quispe steers through his village in western Bolivia, where the streets were turned into rivers two months ago.
His home is one of about 500 partly immersed in floodwaters in the village of Tipuani in the heart of a gold-mining region.
Gold mining has carved away at the banks of the river that runs through the municipality of 7,500 inhabitants. That, combined with unusual rains attributed to climate change, is to blame for the flooding, experts say. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES ARRANGED IN SEQUENCES